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Beyond Fair Trade: How One Small Coffee Company Helped Transform a Hillside Village in Thailand
Mark Pendergrast
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Description for Beyond Fair Trade: How One Small Coffee Company Helped Transform a Hillside Village in Thailand
Paperback. Num Pages: 300 pages, 8-page color photo section. BIC Classification: JFCV; KCM; KNDF; RNU. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 436.
What does compassionate capitalism look like? Mark Pendergrast shows us in this enlightening story of tribal life, opium, missionaries, market trends, a Thai antiques dealer, a mining entrepreneur and coffee. Abigail Carroll, author of Three Squares: The Invention of the American Meal The Akha hill tribe of Thailand has a long, tumultuous history. Politics, economics, violence, prejudice, and deforestation consistently worked against the Akha's desire to move away from their dependency on opium production and create a stable future for their children. That all changed in 2006 when prominent businessman John Darch met entrepreneur Wicha Promyong. Their meeting ... Read more
What does compassionate capitalism look like? Mark Pendergrast shows us in this enlightening story of tribal life, opium, missionaries, market trends, a Thai antiques dealer, a mining entrepreneur and coffee. Abigail Carroll, author of Three Squares: The Invention of the American Meal The Akha hill tribe of Thailand has a long, tumultuous history. Politics, economics, violence, prejudice, and deforestation consistently worked against the Akha's desire to move away from their dependency on opium production and create a stable future for their children. That all changed in 2006 when prominent businessman John Darch met entrepreneur Wicha Promyong. Their meeting ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Greystone Books,Canada
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
453g
Number of Pages
300
Place of Publication
, Canada
ISBN
9781771640473
SKU
V9781771640473
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Mark Pendergrast
Mark Pendergrast is an independent scholar and author of Uncommon Grounds and For God, Country, and Coca-Cola, and Inside the Outbreaks, among other books.
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What does compassionate capitalism look like? Mark Pendergrast shows us in this enlightening story of tribal life, opium, missionaries, market trends, a Thai antiques dealer, a mining entrepreneur and coffee. Abigail Carroll, author of Three Squares: The Invention of the American Meal Well-researched and well-written, Mark Pendergrast's Beyond Fair Trade is an inspirational tale of how culinary globalization ... Read more